The trade value between Việt Nam and Latin America is expected to increase to US$20 billion by 2025, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải said that at the Việt Nam - Latin America Trade Forum 2021, held in Hà Nội on December 9.

Việt Nam is the third-largest cinnamon producer and exporter in the world after Indonesia and China, and the future is full of potential. However, challenges need to be carefully navigated to ensure sustainable development.

Despite facing many difficulties and challenges due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the export turnover of tra fish still reached 1.3 billion USD as of mid-November, up 1.3% compared to the same period in 2020.

An online conference to promote investment from India to southern localities of Vietnam was held on December 10 in Binh Duong by the provincial People’s Committee and the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoIT)’s southern investment promotion centre.

Despite being heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, over US$26 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) capital has been poured into the country over the past 11 months, with this figure expected to continue growing by the end of this year.

The rate of enterprises turning to production is very high, showing the confidence of the business community in the resilience of the economy. The macroeconomic foundation remains stable, creating room for management.

Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies in some countries shared new trends for Vietnamese businesses to enhance economic cooperation with host countries during a seminar held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 10.

The upcoming official visit by Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue to the Republic of Korea (RoK) starting December 12 is viewed as an opportunity to lift the countries’ strategic cooperative partnership to a new height, towards bringing two-way trade to 100 billion USD in a balanced, sustainable and effective manner.

Vietnamese shrimp export revenues are expected to reach 3.9 billion this year, up 4% compared to 2020, as heard at a conference on December 10, to discuss the development of the shrimp industry for 2022.

In retrospect, the final month of 2001 was a pivot point in history. Five days before China joined the WTO on 11 December, the United States and its allies routed the Taliban in its last stronghold in Kandahar, ringing in the start of a twenty-year military adventure in the Middle East that cost the superpower blood, treasury and not a small amount of its reserves of goodwill in the international community.